Window curtain and shade support



J. KROTOWYCH.

WINDOW CURTAIN AND SHADE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 22, I920.

Patented Sept. 14,- 1920.

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UNITED rs WINDOW CURTAIN AND snnnn surron'r.

Application filed April 22,

To all whom it may concern. 7 I

Be it known that I, JHAN Kno'rowrorr, citizen of Poland, residing at Lillian, in the county of Barbour and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in .Window Curtain and Shade Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to window curtain supports, having more particular reference to a combination support for the usual vertically adjustable curtain or shade and the inner laterally movable draperies.

The invention has for an object to provide an improved and novel combination support, and specifically to provide a novel means for mounting the curtain pole from which the inner curtains or draperies are suspended.

For further comprehension of the inven tion, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Figure l of the drawings is a face view showing a window having the invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a side edge view, showing the wall structure in section.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary horizontal section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary transverse vertical section on the line 44 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a detail vertical section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary transverse vertical section taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings 10 indicates generally the facing strip of a frame of a window of ordinary construction, the window sashesbeing indicated at 11. In constructing my improved window curtain support I preferably provide an ornamental top or headboard 12 which extends from side to side of the window frame and is preferably supported at a distance in front of the wall structure 13 on the ends of rigid hooks 14 screwed into the wall structure and braced by clown-turned feet 15, the outer ends of the hooks engaging in eyes 16 carried by the head-board. These hooks 14 are preferably located at a distance from the ends of the head-board as shown in Fig. 1, wooden strips or bars 17 extending from the ends Specification of Letters Patent. P i t g t rp 192@ 1920. Serial No. 375,872.

will now be set forth, 19 indicating the usual spring roller, and 20 the'curtain pole. To support the spring roller l9 one of the side bars has mounted thereon a socket element 21 having a circular socket aperture to receive the usual round trunnion at one end of the spring roller. The other side bar has fixed thereto a plate 22 having a slot 23 formed therein to receive the square trunnion on the corresponding end of the spring roller 19, this slot extending first upwardly, adjacent one side edge of the plate, then horizontally and finally downwardly a short distance, this inner portion. providing a socket in which the square trunnionrests and is held against rotation as indicated in Fig. 4.

The curtain pole is preferably formed with diminished ends 25, one of said ends being adapted to engage in a socket aperture 26 formed in an angular bracket 27 fixed on the side bar 17 which has the socket element 21 fixed thereon. The opposite end of the pole 20 is supported by the following means which permits its ready removal or attachment while at the sametime insuring against accidental displacement.

This means comprises an angular plate 30 extending across the bottom and inner faces of the side bar on which the plate 22 is mounted and covering a recess 81 in the said side bar. Upon the bottom flange of this plate a latch 32 is pivoted at one end to swing horizontally in the recess 31, this latch being preferably of angular shape in cross section with one flan e resting upon and pivoted to the bottom flange of the plate 80 and its other flange extending upwardly on the side adjacent the vertical flange on the plate. This latch is normally pressed outwardly against the said vertical flange of the plate 30 by a flat spring 38 located in the recess 31 and secured at one end to a post 34'on the plate and bearing at its opposite end against the vertical flange of the latch. Formed inthe plate 30 is a slot 35 which extends partly through both flanges thereof, extending upwardly in the vertical flange a suificient distance above the latch 32 to allow of the end of the curtain pole resting on the latter when in the slot. The latch 32 is provided with a handle 36 which projects through a slot 37 in the plate so as to permit of the latch being pressed inwardly by hand against the action of spring The adjacent diminished end of the curtain pole 20 is preferably of square cross-section and beveled oil as shown in Fig. 5 and the parts are so proportioned that when the opposite end is inserted in the aperturev 26 this beveled end will engage and push back the latch automatically when it is moved upwardly into the slot, the latch swinging outwardly 'a 'ain when the said end is moved to the top or the slot and thereby supporting the curtain pole. It is believed that the above description will maize the manner of attachncnt and removai apparent, one end or the curtain pole being inserted into the socket aperture 2% and he opposite end being brought into "y with the slot and thenpushed upward therein. To remove the curtain pole it only necessary to push the handle 36 baclrward, freeing the latch from the end or the curtain pole and allowing the latter to drop.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. In a window curtain support, a headboard having at the ends a pair of rearwardly extending side bars, and curtain pole supporting devices on said side bars, one of said devices including a spring-pressed pivoted latch adapted to engage under the end of the curtain pole.

2. In a window curtain support, a headboard having at the ends a pair of rearwardly extending side bars, and curtain polesupporting devices on said side bars, one of said devices including a springpressed pivoted latch adapted to engage under the end of the curtain pole, and a plate covering a recess in the side bar in which said latch is located, said plate being vertically slotted for passage of the end of the curtain pole.

3. in a window curtain support, a head board having at the enc s a pair of rearwardly extending side bars, and curtain pole supporting devices on said side bars, one of said devices including an angular plate extending across the bottom and inner face of the side bar and covering a recess in the said bar, a latch pivoted on the horizontal flange of .said plate, a spring press d latci against the vertical flange oi said plate, said plate having a slot extending partly along the horizontal flange of the plate and partly up the vertical flange otthe plat-e. v

i. In a window curtain support, a he: dboard having at the ends a pair 01"" rearwardly extending side bars, and curtain pole supporting devices on said side hars, one of said devices including an angular plate extending across the bottom and inner face of the side bar and covering a recess in the said bar, a latch pivoted on the horizontal flange of said plate, a s1 ng pressing said latch against the vertical flange oi said plate, said plate having a slot extending partly along the horizontal flange of the plate and partly up the vertical flange of the plate, the end of the curtain pole being beveled to engage move said latch when the said end is moved upwardly in the said slot.

In testimony whereof I have ailixed my signature.

JHAN KROTOWYCH. 

